Posters & Art Prints

Posters & Art Prints

Intro

Because they toe the line between design and art, posters are both immensely rewarding and incredibly challenging. We’re fortunate enough to have our own dedicated screen printing studio and we’re always thrilled to receive commissions for posters or art prints.

Station Numbers

We teamed up with our studio mates Ben and Amy (of Tremper Creative) to create these large scale screen prints for our studio in North Boulder, Colorado. The prints brought a much-needed punch of color to our space without affecting a strong or distracting personality.

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Colorado State Seal

We were chosen as a participant for the 2013 ARTCRANK poster show, a “poster party for bike people.” We reimagined the State Seal of Colorado, maintaining the seal’s history but incorporating elements that, in our opinion, better represent our wonderful state.

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18˝ × 18˝

2 color screen print

100# cover stock

French Paper Construction Fuse Green

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Tools of Letterpress

This art print celebrates all things letterpress and was (appropriately) letterpress printed. The hefty stock and textured paper are really great, but the best part of the print is the wavy blob of ink on the ink knife.

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Calexico

We designed and printed a tour poster for the Calexico’s 2013 winter tour. The poster is inspired by “Splitter,” a track off of Calexico‘s album “Algiers.” About half way through printing the poster, we ran out of ink, which was a huge pain in the ass (but the printing went well, all things considered).

Poster Specs

18˝ × 24˝

2 color screen print

100# cover stock

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Measure Thrice

You’ve most likely heard the old adage “measure twice, cut once.” While those are indeed wise words, we’ve decided to kick it up a notch. Related story: A pressman in Nebraska bought one of these and told us he hung it above the guillotine cutter in his shop. We couldn’t have imagined a better spot.

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12˝ × 16˝

2 color screen print

100# cover stock

French Paper Poptone Red Hot

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Scream-O-Rama

We were commissioned by The Loft Cinema to create a poster for their annual Scream-O-Rama event. We created a fictional product and advertisement for each of the seven movies shown at the twelve-hour horror movie extravaganza. Reading through the text on our Loft Cinema project page is highly recommended.

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Spoke Serpent

We participated in the VelociPrint Bike Art Show, held at the newly opened Borderlands Brewery in downtown Tucson, Arizona. This print, a snake weaving through the spokes of a bicycle wheel (in a highly improbable geometric fashion), was the first of our two entries.

Print Specs

18˝ × 24˝

4 color screen print

80# cover stock

Mohawk Paper Loop Antique Vellum Husk

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Bike! Bike! Bike!

This print was the second of our two submissions in the VelociPrint Bike Art Show, held at the newly opened Borderlands Brewery in downtown Tucson, Arizona. We used an overprint to achieve the third color (brown).

Print Specs

18˝ × 24˝

2 color screen print

110# cover stock

Mohawk Paper Loop Antique Vellum Husk

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Other Lives

We saw Other Lives play at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was an incredible show, and shortly after talking with the band we were making this poster for the last leg of their North American tour.

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Fleet Foxes

We collaborated with designer Ryan Trayte (of Saywells Design) on a set of gig posters for Fleet Foxes’ Tucson, AZ show at the Rialto on their tour supporting the release of “Helplessness Blues.” A diptych that tiles on all four sides, the posters represent the connection between the seemingly disparate elements repeated throughout the record.

Poster Specs

18˝ × 24˝

2 color screen print

110# cover stock

Mohawk Paper Loop Antique Vellum Husk

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Good Design is Felt

We experimented with the use of handmade elements, resulting in this four-color screen print. The artwork started as a photo of the word “felt” cut out of paper and glued onto Richard’s hand. We digitally manipulated the photo, separated the image into process plates (cyan, magenta, yellow, black), halftoned it, then screen printed all four layers, resulting in the final product. For the print nerds, the registration was done by hand (no pins) and kept to within a thirty-second of an inch throughout the run.

Print Specs

18˝ × 24˝

4 color screen print

100# cover stock

French Paper Speckletone Madero Beach

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BICAS Unicorn

We worked with the Bicycle Inter-Community Art & Salvage (BICAS) to create a series of screen printed posters. They described the target audience as hardcore bikers, punks that only wear black and red, and carnivalesque-DIY-kind-of-people. This one, of course, is for the carnies.

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24˝ × 18˝

1 color screen print

80# cover stock

French Paper Speckletone Cream

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BICAS Skull

We worked with the Bicycle Inter-Community Art & Salvage (BICAS) to create a series of screen printed posters. They described the target audience as hardcore bikers, punks that only wear black and red, and carnivalesque-DIY-kind-of-people. This one, of course, is for the punks.

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Ghost Town Carnival

A poster advertising the “Ghost Town Carnival” Halloween event put on by the Wildcat Print Association at the historic Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona. The event had live music, drinks, dancing, and a live printing demo where guests could take home screen printed t-shirts.

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Refrigerator

We printed this experimental six-color screen print hoping it’ll get some conversation going about how and what we’re eating these days. Available in our shop on baby blue, light pink, or kraft-colored stock.

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Little Joy

Little Joy is a band consisting of Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos), Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), and Binki Shapiro . We think the poster has something to do with parallel dimensions, but we’re leaving it open for interpretation.